Ellingwood was a hard-working Chicago physician with many
years experience, and an acknowledged expert in ob/gyn medicine.
What we would now call "a Networker", he was a vocal
advocate of women physicians, and edited Ellingwood's
Therapeutistfor many years. His brand of Eclectic Medicine,
like a Chicago-Style pizza, differed a bit from the Cincinnati
style ("smothered, covered and chopped" - a regional
joke) as mentored by Scudder, Lloyd, Fyfe and Felter.

This is a serious medical text from the early 20th century,
it was intended for practicing physicians and surgeons, and can
be hair-raising at times. Remember: No antibiotics, no cardiac
monitors, no CAT-scans, no blood-glucose stick tests, no sulfa
drugs, no machines that go "beep"...old fashioned physicianing
when heart monitoring was done artfully with a stethoscope and
physical diagnosis, not lab tests, was King. There is good now,
there was good then...but then, you KNOW that already.

These files are organized in the same manner as in Ellingwood's
original text. I used to hate this format of his, but I have
come to understand a bit better why he listed them by organ systems,
even though most herbs have multisystemic effects. Several section
I deleted as they dealt solely with chemicals, but in the sections
that compare herbs and drugs/chemicals, I retained all the material.
All files are bookmarked Acrobat .pdf files